Banco Popular de Puerto Rico is a full-service financial services provider with operations in Puerto Rico, the United States and Virgin Islands. Popular, Inc. is the largest banking institution by both assets and deposits in Puerto Rico, and in the United States Popular, Inc.
Latest NewsJudy Wheatley is senior vice president, compliance, Indecomm Global Services, a business process outsourcing company with its U.S. corporate office in Iselin, N.J. With 30 years experience in the mortgage industry, Judy is a recognized expert in consulting and fulfillment services to residential mortgage lending clients. Judy received her Certified Mortgage Banker designation in 2003, and her Accredited Residential Underwriter designation in 1993. She has actively served the mortgage banking industry as a governor on several mortgage banker association boards and by teaching mortgage banking courses for education service providers and financial institutions.
Roger Fendelman, Interthinx vice president of compliance, leads the company's compliance department and the PredProtect compliance suite of automated regulatory compliance tools. Roger previously served in the legal department of Nexstar Financial Corporation (acquired by MBNA/Bank of America), where he focused on issues such as federal and 50-state licensing and examinations, loan officer licensing and education, fair lending and predatory lending compliance and legislative review and analysis.
Angela Hurst is senior vice president of business development, RES.NET.
John Cottrell has over 20 years of experience in mortgage banking, with special expertise in default, foreclosure, bankruptcy and compliance issues. Serving as an officer with institutions such as Vericrest Financial, Saxon Mortgage Services, and PlainsCapital Bank (Prime Lending), Cottrell has compiled a successful track record of ensuring compliance and identifying areas for process enhancement. From 2009 to 2011, he managed the contested foreclosure litigation department for Saxon Mortgage, a division of Morgan Stanley.
Frank T. Pallotta is the owner of Ramsey, NJ-based Steel Curtain Capital Group LLC, a mortgage advisory firm specializing in managing residential mortgage risk through consumer marketing and outreach strategies. Frank has spent more than 25 years in residential mortgage banking having worked for Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley. He continues to work closely with many of the largest financial institutions in the country, including the GSEs, HUD and the U.S. Treasury Department. His experience includes all aspects of origination, underwriting, servicing, securitization and loss mitigation.Frank can be reached at 201-962-8300 or Frank@SteelCurtainCapital.com.
Jed Kolko, Chief Economist and VP of Analytics, oversees Trulia's research programs. Applying a background in economic development and research methods, he transforms real estate data, economic trends, and public policy debate into digestible insights for home buyers, sellers and renters. In Jed's prior role as Associate Director and Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, he led research projects and advised policymakers and business leaders on economic, housing and technology policies. Before his work at PPIC, Jed directed Forrester Research's consumer-technology market research, advising corporate executives on technology adoption and demand. Jed has also held positions at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (now FHFA), the World Bank and the Progressive Policy Institute.Jed earned his A.B. in social studies and his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University.
Scott R. Gibson heads the operations for MountainView IPS. Mr. Gibson joined the IPS team in 2005 and is responsible for overseeing structured products valuation, whole loan analysis and cash-flow modeling. Scott�s team covers more than 4,500 private label RMBS, ABS and CMBS. He has over 14 years of experience in financial analysis and structured products valuation, and his background covers all aspects of structured product analysis, including project management, model development, process control and client presentations. He holds a Bachelors of Science degree from Lehigh University.
Erik joined Stifel Nicolaus in 2006 to create and develop the mortgage finance and whole loan trading group. As the whole loan trader, Erik analyzes, prices and trades performing, sub and non-performing residential, commercial and consumer loans on a daily basis. Erik came to Stifel from U.S. Mortgage where he was Senior Vice President of Capital Markets from 2004 to 2006. With a strong background in analytics and deal management while with Bear Stearns and Sandler O�Neill, Erik transitioned into whole loan trading in 2000 when he joined PAMEX Capital Partners, LLC (PAMEX was later acquired by Hanover Trade, Inc. in 2001). He has successfully marketed over $10 billion in loan portfolios. Erik has been quoted on Bloomberg and publishes �Trends and Color in the Whole Loan Market� on a quarterly basis.Erik holds a B.A. in economics and in history from the University of Michigan.
Allison Brown is the Program Manager for Mortgage Servicing within the Office of Supervision Policy at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, DC. Ms. Brown oversees mortgage servicing examinations and development of procedures for these exams. Before coming to the CFPB, Ms. Brown was an attorney in the Division of Financial Practices at the Federal Trade Commission for over 11 years. There, she worked on mortgage issues, debt relief issues, and other consumer finance issues.







